Living Terrain

Greetongs, Fellow Photoherds And Other Live On The Great Outdoors Fans!

Coming in with a few shots of a bunch of oxen that i took some time ago. I could not be in front of the procession but also, light conditions made things interesting from the back. That way, a wave of bovine bodies a mini terrain created. Like moving hills across the sinew.

Camera Settings:

Aperture F 4; Shutter Speed 1/500 of a second; Light Sensitivity ISO 200; Focal Length 200 mm

A crop of a wider angle photo, still, despite the original being 200 mm. This is about a quarter of the volume.

Camera Model:

Canon EOS 2000D with a 70-200 mm 4 L USM lens.

Same but in color...

And...a few more shots from that series below.

And maybe, since you're all good fellas, a little zoom out of the illusion. The above being crops of images such as this closer to the original one.

Minus a peeing ox, one that I would, out of decency, leave out of here. I wouldn't needlessly dox an ox, after all.

Large animals, in general, are quite lovely in my opinion. Peaceful giants, terrains by themselves, indeed, for smaller organisms such as the symbiotic birds that clean their hides. Seeing those moving in herds like this is enchanting in a way. There's a certain rhythm, a certain shuffling sound even without any bells, that brings a dude back to the earth. To what it was and could still be.

Rarer now than before, such sights. More and more...centralized, too. Husbandry has been on the wrong term with modern politics.

To quote a parody futuristic song by Flight Of The Conchords:

There're no more elephants.
There're no more unethical treatment of elephants, either.
There're no more humans...

Well, those living terrains in particular are extensions of human will, after all. Human will moving hills across the plains.

Peace!

Manol